4th Annual B4thesnowflies ride, Nov. 1/2 SouthSierras

[M.Brane]

 My tire scrub-in ride today was quite fun. Hit all the local twisty roads (150, South Mountain, Balcom, Stockton, Grimes, Guiberson) . The sky was threatening, but nary a drop. Warm too! I wore just a long-sleeve T under my perfed jacket, and was a little sweaty when I got home.

 Bike is just about packed up, and ready to rock.

[GTS_Rider]

Thanks for the updates.  

I broke down and finally bought a heated vest last weekend, though I don't think I'll even bother to spend the time to wire it up for this trip. Though, I did see snow levels down to 6,500-7k feet, that's gotta be at 3-4am, it's been really warm down here too.

See ya'll tomorrow. Still got 28 on the list for dinner and spoke with Veronica, Serranos owner this afternoon. It'll be interesting to see how that works out. It's a small restuarant, and 28 incoming will sure to be near overwhelming...

[M.Brane]

 Cool. Looks like less attrition than I thought due to weather.

 See you at Denny's in the AM.

[DogBoy]

What time is everyone meeting at Serrano's? And by everyone, I mean you, Rick.

[GTS_Rider]

What time is everyone meeting at Serrano's? And by everyone, I mean you, Rick.

The target time is 7pm, though I gave Veronica a window of 6-8 pm. By 7pm target I'm trying to allow for late-arrivals, plus time to settle in *and* parking-lot-roaming-beer-drinking-tire-kicking-post-ride-meet-and-greet-wind-down. It's also kinda tied to weather. I still see reports of rain coming in after 8pm or so. It'll be a tuff fit to get 28 of us 'inside' the restaurant. Though, there's enough of an overhang on the westside of the place that we could still be in a big group outside and not get wet if it starts raining (eh, I think..). Heh, it'll all work out and sure to be interesting...

[bluepoof]

The bikes are starting to really pile up outside of the Comfort Inn here in Three Rivers!  

[DogBoy]

Got home about 2:15 after wandering out of the foothills and slabbing all the way up Hwy 99. Ride report to follow this evening...or when I get around to it.

Thanks Rick and everyone for a great weekend.  

[hhhch45]

Made it home about 2:30, thanks to all for another great get together.
Jim

[M.Brane]

 To steal a line from Hunter S. Thompson: man, what a ride!

 No snow, but plenty of rain, mud, wet leaves, etc. Sat. Today was beautiful though. Real glad I didn't bail out when the going got tough.

 It was good to see some of you again, and meet the rest of you. Hope you all made it home safe 'n sound.

[jakieboy]

 To steal a line from Hunter S. Thompson: man, what a ride!

 No snow, but plenty of rain, mud, wet leaves, etc. Sat. Today was beautiful though. Real glad I didn't bail out when the going got tough.

 It was good to see some of you again, and meet the rest of you. Hope you all made it home safe 'n sound.

+1 on that, what a ride! Saturdays ride on the "cow trails" was one to remember! Thanks Rick for putting this together. And the dinner at Serranos was fantastic, even though they had to put us outside! Sorry I didn't get to say good by to all this morning but I had the itch to ride since the sun was shinning! See you all next time!

I didn't get many on the road pictures due to the rain but I posted a few in my Picasa web albums below.

[M.Brane]

+1 on that, what a ride! Saturdays ride on the "cow trails" was one to remember! Thanks Rick for putting this together. And the dinner at Serranos was fantastic, even though they had to put us outside! Sorry I didn't get to say good by to all this morning but I had the itch to ride since the sun was shinning! See you all next time!

I didn't get many on the road pictures due to the rain but I posted a few in my Picasa web albums below.

 Yeah, I didn't want to ruin my new camera just yet. I decided to hang for a bit to see what Rick had up his sleeve for today. I was not disappointed:

[Explorer]

Got home at 6:30 after a nice long ride home, on some nice side roads. Thanks to all for a great time

[Orson]

guess we'll hafta rely on da poof for pictures  

 

[GTS_Rider]

guess we'll hafta rely on da poof for pictures  

 

Haha, ehh yeah,...this is true. Least, for the really good ones. There was one really awesome picture in the making coming down into Bodfish/Isabella from Caliente. The whole valley where Isabella lake resides was socked in with low-lying cloud cover. We were above the cloud cover and off in the distance one big peak was poking through the clouds.
Hey, my waterproof gloves were soaking wet and it was too much of a hassle to stop and dig out the camera stashed deep inside some bag to protect it from water damage. In other words, you had to be there...    

Another epic adventure completed. Ok, epic might be an overstatement, but fooking a' , we got seriously drenched and we're from SoCal. Though, it seems the B4thesnowflies moniker for this ride was exactly on target. Saturday night it snowed on Sequoia National Park...

[bluepoof]

guess we'll hafta rely on da poof for pictures  

 

I took about 250 pics.  They're uploading now.  

Peter and I had a great time.  Our weather was just fine!

[Explorer]

Here are a few photos from this weekend

[DogBoy]

guess we'll hafta rely on da poof for pictures  

 

I took around 50 pics. Maybe 10 are worth viewing. Sarcastic captions coming in promised ride report.

Link to "B4thesnowflies" album

[Jeff N]

I see this pic



and that bike with the clouds overhead and I'm thinking the mountain and I want to rail it.

[bluepoof]

My pics are taking forever to upload    so here are a couple of teasers.  I'll try to have the writeup done this week.  

[GTS_Rider]

Frank Filips from LABiker caught a couple of pics from the scene I painted earlier. He was about a half-hour behind, mostly because I fail to communicate (but I won't go into that), so the lowland valley cloud cover was breaking up a bit at this point. Still, some cool shots here...